Steven Sivek

Steven Sivek is a Reader in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London, affiliated with the Geometry group within the Department of Mathematics. His research focuses on contact and symplectic geometry, knot theory, gauge theory, and low-dimensional topology. He has taught courses on contact geometry, symplectic geometry, mapping class groups, and Morse theory at institutions including Imperial College London, Harvard University, and the University of Bonn. His work includes advanced topics such as Floer homology, Legendrian knots, and the interplay between contact structures and 3-manifolds. Sivek's contributions bridge geometric topology with algebraic structures, addressing questions about knot invariants, representation varieties, and topological field theories.

His courses emphasize foundational texts and advanced research topics, such as the classification of tight contact structures, Morse theory applications, and symplectic fiber bundles. He has organized seminars on mapping class groups and taught graduate-level material on advanced geometry and topology. Sivek's research has been published in numerous high-impact papers, exploring themes like Khovanov homology, instanton Floer homology, and the geometry of 3- and 4-manifolds.

His academic profile reflects a commitment to both teaching and cutting-edge research, with a focus on geometric and topological questions that intersect algebraic and differential structures.